OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Current Directions in Psychological Science is 18. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Aging in an Era of Fake News	153
Seed and Soil: Psychological Affordances in Contexts Help to Explain Where Wise Interventions Succeed or Fail	133
Cognitive-Load Theory: Methods to Manage Working Memory Load in the Learning of Complex Tasks	108
Narcissism Today: What We Know and What We Need to Learn	89
Beyond the Core-Deficit Hypothesis in Developmental Disorders	75
The Role of Parent Educational Attainment in Parenting and Children’s Development	75
Developmental Variability and Developmental Cascades: Lessons From Motor and Language Development in Infancy	61
Attention Control: A Cornerstone of Higher-Order Cognition	60
The Major Health Implications of Social Connection	59
Collective Narcissism and Its Social Consequences: The Bad and the Ugly	58
A Developmental-Science Perspective on Social Inequality	53
Progress in Joint-Action Research	53
Why Facts Are Not Enough: Understanding and Managing the Motivated Rejection of Science	52
Toward a Science of Effective Cognitive Training	52
Back to Basics: The Importance of Conceptual Clarification in Psychological Science	49
Do We Become More Prosocial as We Age, and if So, Why?	49
Digital Emotion Regulation	47
The Vicious Cycle Linking Stereotypes and Social Roles	46
Pornography Use and Psychological Science: A Call for Consideration	45
Research Domain Criteria (RDoC): Progress and Potential	44
Do Social Networking Sites Influence Well-Being? The Extended Active-Passive Model	44
Toward an Integrative Model of Sources of Personality Stability and Change	43
Drinking Together and Drinking Alone: A Social-Contextual Framework for Examining Risk for Alcohol Use Disorder	42
Influences of Caregiving on Development: A Sensitive Period for Biological Embedding of Predictability and Safety Cues	41
The Missing Side of Acculturation: How Majority-Group Members Relate to Immigrant and Minority-Group Cultures	40

Taking Skills Seriously: Toward an Integrative Model and Agenda for Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Skills	39
Foraging in Mind	38
A Transdiagnostic Perspective on Youth Irritability	35
Mindfulness and Motivation: A Process View Using Self-Determination Theory	34
Studying Mental Health Problems as Systems, Not Syndromes	34
Children’s Language Skills Can Be Improved: Lessons From Psychological Science for Educational Policy	33
ABC Training: A New Theory-Based Form of Cognitive-Bias Modification to Foster Automatization of Alternative Choices in the Treatment of Addiction and Related Disorders	32
Neuroticism and Disorders of Emotion: A New Synthesis	32
Reduced Memory Coherence for Negative Events and Its Relationship to Posttraumatic Stress Disorder	31
The Situation of Situation Research: Knowns and Unknowns	31
Vitamin S: Why Is Social Contact, Even With Strangers, So Important to Well-Being?	31
Personality Change Through Digital-Coaching Interventions	30
Idiographic Traits: A Return to Allportian Approaches to Personality	30
Learning by Drawing Visual Representations: Potential, Purposes, and Practical Implications	29
Your Brain Is Not an Onion With a Tiny Reptile Inside	29
Why Empathy Is Not a Reliable Source of Information in Moral Decision Making	29
Stress Reactivity: What Pushes Us Higher, Faster, and Longer—and Why It Matters	28
From Stress to Depression: Bringing Together Cognitive and Biological Science	28
Decomposing the Motivation to Exert Mental Effort	28
Learning to Read and Dyslexia: From Theory to Intervention Through Personalized Computational Models	28
Forms and Functions of the Social Emotions	27
Navigating Through the Experienced Environment: Insights From Mobile Eye Tracking	27
Beyond Stereotypes: Using Socioemotional Selectivity Theory to Improve Messaging to Older Adults	25
A Grand Challenge for Psychology: Reducing the Age-Related Digital Divide	25
Shared Reality: From Sharing-Is-Believing to Merging Minds	24
Concepts for Which We Need Others More: The Case of Abstract Concepts	24
The Profound Heterogeneity of Substance Use Disorders: Implications for Treatment Development	23
Probabilistic Biases Meet the Bayesian Brain	23
Robots as Mirrors of the Human Mind	23
The Psychology of Intolerance: Unpacking Diverse Understandings of Intolerance	23
A Value-Based Framework for Understanding Cooperation	23
Emotion Goals in Psychopathology: A New Perspective on Dysfunctional Emotion Regulation	23
Credibility Beyond Replicability: Improving the Four Validities in Psychological Science	22
Similarity of Computations Across Domains Does Not Imply Shared Implementation: The Case of Language Comprehension	22
Formal and Informal Supports for Managing Work and Family	22
Moral-Exemplar Intervention: A New Paradigm for Conflict Resolution and Intergroup Reconciliation	21
Cultural Evolutionary Mismatches in Response to Collective Threat	20
Mapping the Imaginative Mind: Charting New Paths Forward	20
Rethinking the Diagnosis of Mental Disorders: Data-Driven Psychological Dimensions, Not Categories, as a Framework for Mental-Health Research, Treatment, and Training	20
Critical Ignoring as a Core Competence for Digital Citizens	19
Toward a Comparative Approach to Language Acquisition	19
Do Rating and Task Measures of Control Abilities Assess the Same Thing?	19
Social-Structure Learning	19
Emotion as Information in Early Social Learning	18
Regret and Decision-Making: A Developmental Perspective	18